I just noticed that they got the video for my Mix talk posted ... Silverlight: Creating and Delivering Amazing Video Experiences on the Web It is completely free! You don't have to have been an attendee to see it. Please take a look and let me hear your thoughts and feedback. Enjoy! Read More... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Wow, just wow, that's all I really need to say. MIX07 was insane, an absolute great time, and some fantastic new stuff coming out from Microsoft for the web. So what were the highlights, for me it came down to three things, first the announcements around Silverlight, second was all the great sharing we got to do about IE, and third, was meeting some fantastic people. I didn't really get a chance to blog while I was at MIX this year, which I wish I had, but we were all so busy, attending sessions, hanging out, hearing what you had to say, eating drinking and being merry. IE As Chris mentioned on the IE Blog , we didn't have anything to announce this year at MIX, we were there to listen, and provide some information. Chris's IE session was standing...(read more)

Rob Bagby – a Developer Evangelist here at Microsoft – has scheduled a series of webcasts on MS AJAX. Tune in with me !!!! ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Calling Web Services (5/3 @1:00 p.m. Arizona time) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032337914&Culture=en-US ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Object-Oriented Development (5/15 @9:00 a.m. Arizona time) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032337930&Culture=en-US ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Creating Controls (5/17 @9:00 a.m. Arizona time) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032337935&Culture=en-US ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Creating Behaviors and Extenders (5/21 @10:00 a.m. Arizona time) http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032337940&Culture=en-US...(read more)

At the Mix07 conference this week, I did an overview presentation of the web development features being delivered in Visual Studio "Orcas". The folks at Mix have been kind enough to make videos of all the sessions from the conference available to the public. Click here to watch my session on Web Development using Visual Studio "Orcas". You can also check out http://sessions.visitmix.com/ to browse all the other great content presented at Mix07 this week. Enjoy! -- Omar Khan Group Program Manager Visual Studio Web Tools Read More... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

I know many of you are following all the excitement here at Mix from home. I am super happy that they already have several of the sessions posted for live streaming or downloading. Here are a few that I think are worth watching first.. Mike Harsh : Deep Dive on Silverlight Media Integration Mike goes super deep on the media support in Silverlight... John Lam and Jim Hugunin : Just Glue It! Ruby and the DLR in Silverlight John and Jim are an excellent duo... They have a great interchange on the power of dynamic languages ion the platform. Anders Hejisberg: Using LINQ to Dramatically Improve Data Driven Development in Web Applications Andres + Linq. What more do I need to say. Jamie Cool and Nick Kramer : Building Silverlight Applications Using...(read more)

Wow -- less than a day after they keynote we have the source code for the "Silverlight airlines" application posted. Check out David Anson blog on it which includes a live link and of course full source code ! Check it out and build your own! I can't wait to see what folks do with this stuff... please send me your sample apps! Read More... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Had a great time at my MIX talk today - I think it went well! Here's the slides & demos! Read More......(read more)

I had a great time in my Mix session today... there was great buzz in the room. Silverlight download ASP.NET Futures download Live demo site Here are a few highlights... I started off talking about the importance of having your site "Look Great and Feel Great". In the demo for this section, I showed off I Expression Media Encoder . What is really cool is that Expression also outputs the brand new asp:Media control . This is so cool because it handles all the issues of using Silverlight in the different browsers with NO client side javascript and fully use the power of the server (databinding, etc). Check out the new ASP.NET Futures release to get these bits. The next principle I talked about was "Uninterrupted Flow". The goal here is to make...(read more)

I had a chance to talk to the great folks over at .NET Rocks about a couple of the big Silverlight announcements we did here at the show. Check it out and let me know what you think! Show #233: Brad Abrams Announces Silverlight The whole think is great, but the interview with me starts at about 12:20 Read More......(read more)

Today at MIX07, Silverlight was announced along with some amazing demos showing off the media capabilities, as well as the .net/managed programming model... Read More......(read more)

I give Nikhil a hard time because almost all his demos are some sort of photo album. (It's true.) In spite of that, his demos are always fresh and instructive. His latest is no different. Right now he's demoing it at MIX'07, but you can play with it live at http://mixer1009.mixsandbox.com/app . I'm sure he'll blog about the sample soon, but it's interesting just to play with the app. By the way, he'll be showing the live mixsandbox version of the app during his talk, so don't leave any inappropriate comments (yet). :-) Read More......(read more)

I've been quiet again for a while, mostly because my team has been heads-down for a few weeks working on a demo for ScottGu's MIX keynote, and today it went off without a hitch. Silverlight is an absolutely amazing platform, and I'm not just saying that because it's coming out of MS. The whole story - from designer tools, to developer tools, to platform - is just fantastic and has a great feel to it. It's one of those times when you've got the right pieces floating around (.NET, WPF, the Expression Suite) and you tie them together into something that's bigger than the sum of it's parts. Mac support, FireFox support, cross platform debugging, light auto-install, it's all there. My team has been working on the Airline Demo that Scott showed today...(read more)

Today at MIX'07 , Brad Abrams and others are going to show how to build a video site using ASP.NET Futures , Silverlight , IIS, etc. They'll be showing a number of really impressive demos. I've been spending the past few weeks writing most of the code for the main application they'll be demoing. (It's one of the reasons I haven't blogged in so long.) You can now see the fruits of our labor live on the web, thanks to the MIX Sandbox in the Sky . The sandbox is a really cool idea that lets all attendees of MIX get their own website to play with and share the things they make. If you want to see the features of the site, here are some quick steps that will show the highlights of what we built: Launch http://mixer1004.mixsandbox.com in IE7, Firefox,...(read more)

We’ve just announced the new Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Orcas Tools support at MIX ’07! Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for building next-gen media experiences and rich interactive applications. Silverlight 1.1 contains a cross-platform CLR, allowing you to use your favorite .NET language rather than JavaScript to build the client-side functionality of your apps. Check out http://silverlight.net/Default.aspx for more details. Install links: (* = optional) Orcas Beta 1 ( http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa700831.aspx ) Silverlight 1.1 Runtime ( http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=88986&clcid=0x409 ) Silverlight Tools for Orcas Alpha ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6C2B309B-8F2D-44A5-B04F-836F0D4EC1C4&displaylang=en...(read more)

Have you checked out the Mix Sandbox in the Sky yet? It is a free web hoster that has all the cool bits we are talking about here already installed. If you are here at Mix, it allows you to build, install and share YOUR work. If you are following the action from home , you can see what folks are building. Steve Marx just got the demo for my talk posted on the sandbox ... Go check it out! But please come to the talk to see how it is built ;-) (today at 4:30p) Notice it is just a demo, so not everything fully works... You will need the beta of Silverlight 1.0 that we just released ( silverlight.net ) Enjoy! Read More......(read more)

I love helping developers understand our developer platform... one of the fun ways I get to do that is be at least a little bit involved in making some fun poster... We have done them for the BCL , .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.0 ... Today we started giving out this Silverlight poster. If you are at Mix, please come to one of the sessions with "Silverlight" in the title and pick your up! If you are not there, you have have to settle for the highres download. Enjoy Read More......(read more)

I just ran into one of the editors from O'Reilly in the halls at Mix and he told me that they just published a "Short Cut" on Silverlight. I have not read it yet, but Shawn Wildermuth is very plugged in guy and a proven author so I am sure it is great. Getting Started with Silverlight By Shawn Wildermuth April 2007 Pages: 62 Let me know what you think... Read More......(read more)

HTML / ASP.NET spell checker addin was updated with support for multiple languages. Spell checker is now able to detect lang attribute specified on elements, extracts ISO language and uses it to specify appropriate dictionary for the Office spell checking engine. In order to be able to run spell check in multiple languages you may need to install Microsoft Office 2003 Proofing Tools or an appropriate Office 2007 Language Pack . If you never used particular language dictionary in Word, you have to try it before it becomes available in the Spell Checker add-in. Many dictionaries are installed on demand and if particular language was never activated in Word, the disctionary may be still missing. Open Word, type something in the desired language...(read more)

I can't wait for Mix to start... Friday we locked down all the bits we are giving out (and it is a LOT of them)... polished some very cool demos and got our hands on the final version of some other cool stuff. You could really feel the buzz growing over in building 42 and building 10! I am very excited about the talk I am giving... It will be a lot of fun and will cover a some great Silverlight media stuff, some new ASP.NET AJAX work and of course Expression and Visual Studio. If you are there, please come... If not, look for the demo and slides after the event. Silverlight: Creating and Delivering Amazing Video Experiences on the Web Monday, April 30 4:30 PM - 5:45 PM, Lando 4301A Speakers: Brad Abrams , Chris Knowlton - Microsoft Audiences:...(read more)

This week we shipped IIS 7.0 Beta 3 as part of the Windows "Longhorn" Server release. IIS 7.0 is the biggest release of IIS in the history of the product, and brings with it major improvements to the Microsoft web-server stack. This article and this blog post list just a few of the major improvements it delivers. New IIS 7.0 Beta3 Features This week's IIS 7.0 Beta3 release introduces a bunch of new features and capabilities above and beyond what shipped in the IIS 7.0 release that came with Windows Vista. These include: Web Farm Shared Configuration : You can now configure your web-servers to be stateless, and centralize all configuration, code and content across web farms (making it much easier to scale out and manage). Learn more about how...(read more)